South African Music Archive Project
Folk music
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- Composer: Francis Muyambo (Performer) | 1951/06/23 | Folk music, Francis Muyambo, Mbira, Mount Silinda, Ndau, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Self delectative song
- Composer: Saadani Abdu Kandaro (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Daressalaam, East African, Folk music, Indigenous music, Mashairi, Nguja, Poetry, Saadani Abdu Kandaro, Song, Swahili, Tanganyika, Tanzania, Unaccompanied, ILAM | Mashairi Song Poems. Further details refer ILAM shellac record number TP1693
- Artist(s): Bandani (Leader) | Composer: Mayogo men and women (Performer)Composer not specified | 1952/08/05 | Bandani, Basket rattle, Belgian Congo, Central African, Congo, Dance song, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Folk music, Gbe-kombi mbira, Indigenous music, Kombi mbira, Mayogo, Paulis, Republic of the Congo, Yogo, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM field card number: F4H 6
- Composer: Wilberforce Institute Singers (Performer)F. H. Gow (Conductor)Composer not specified | 1940-00-00 | F. H. Gow, Folk music, Gow,F.H., Indigenous music, Sotho, Southern African, Wilberforce Institute Singers, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record number: CR3748.
- Composer: Sinyoro, C.M. (Performer)Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Njanja, Njari, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Song for souls, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Song for Mashawi souls with Njari dza Manjanja (Mbira). Further details refer ILAM field card (C6E9)
- Composer: Composer not specifiedChabarwa Musanda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mbira, Njanja, Njari, Shona, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Translated English title - "The masongano do not sleep on the path." Further details refer ILAM Shellac record number: TP0746
- Composer: Composer not specifiedChabarwa Musunda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mashawi, Mbira, Njanja, Njari, Shona, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Song, soul, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Song for Mashawi souls. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C6E-9
- Composer: Chabarwa Musunda Sinyoro (Performer) | 1949/10/03 | Folk music, Indigenous music, Mashawi, Mbira, Njari, Nyanja, Shona, Sinyoro,Chabarwa Musunda, Song, soul, Southern African, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, ILAM | Song for Mashawi souls. Further information refer ILAM field card number: C6E-9
- Artist(s): Lomwe men and boys (Performer) | Composer: Matiyasi Mebanla (Performer) | 1949/09/17 | Dance song, Folk music, Indigenous music, Lomwe, Lomwe, Makua, Malawi, Matiyasi Mebanla, Nyasaland, Party song, Southern African, ILAM | Dance song for Korekore dance for men and women. Further details refer ILAM field card (C5O3)
- Artist(s): Haya people (Performer) | Composer: L. Magezi (Performer)Composer not specified | 1950-00-00 | Clapping, Drum, East African, Folk music, Haya, Haya, Indigenous music, L. Magezi, Love song, Lute, Nyoro, Tanganyika, Tanzania, ILAM | Further details refer ILAM record no. TP1834.
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